Blind teacher yearns to return to classroom

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Blind teacher yearns to return to classroom

For 21 years, Antonate Peters honed her skills in classrooms until one day in February 2019 when she woke up blind. Baffled by the suddenness of it all, Peters recalls that it was a traumatising experience when she could not even find her way out...

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